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Christmas, love, and a batch of cookies.Former bookshop keeper Leela Miller is back in Massey Falls. Her mom passed away last spring, and she's home taking care of her ailing father. Now, Leela is desperate to fill Mom’s shoes in the Ladies’ Auxiliary by chairing the Cookie House fundraiser. The hitch: mean-eyed Mrs. Coldicott refuses to host the event at her Society Row home as planned. Leela must find a new venue big enough and fancy enough to draw in customers, or Mom's event might get canceled. There's only one perfect place: the Layton Mansion. New vet school graduate Jay Wilson ...

They say everyone has a doppelgänger. Hers was a killer. With only sixty-three cents in her pocket, Molly is way down on her luck. No job, no food in the fridge, no power at her cold, dark apartment. Her mom won't take her calls. Her ex only lives in her memories. Worst of all, she might be getting evicted. At the grocery store, a posh woman approaches Molly. "Wow, we look so much alike." Indeed, it's uncanny. The posh lookalike, Hester, offers to buy Molly lunch so they can chat. Who's Molly to turn down free food? "I'd give anything," Hester sighs, "to get away from my life. Just for a ...

Their first Christmas kiss—on a high school stage—was their last. He intends to change that. It’s Christmastime, and Olivia Olsen has returned to her hometown of Mendon with the goal of giving back. Years ago, she sped away in a cloud of humiliation—at the insistence of her overprotective family. The last person she wants to see in Mendon is the person who not only remembers her embarrassment but who caused it: Cody Haught. What's Cody Haught doing in her hospital? And why is he even better-looking now? Dr. Cody Haught, bachelor surgeon at Mendon Regional Hospital, can't believe his...

Six Award-Winning Authors have contributed new stories to A Timeless Romance Anthology: Under the Mistletoe Collection. Six contemporary novellas, all adding sweet romance to the Christmas season.

He’s a benched quarterback who needs redemption. She’s the single mom of their child. He’s back in town to make amends.Charlotte Nilsen never thought she’d see McCoy Armstrong again after he hit the big time in the NFL. After all, she’s the one who insisted on an annulment after his scandal with the cheerleader. She’s rebuilt her life now. Her one regret is she never told McCoy their brief marriage resulted in a son. McCoy has been benched. A shoulder injury will do that to an NFL quarterback. Enough time has passed that he dares to hope that his ex-wife Charlotte will forgive ...

Get deported to a hobbit cult or marry the hot lawyer who came in for lunch? Just when her café is about to receive a major award, beautiful and talented chef Piper's world is racked. She's not a U.S. citizen! Worse, she's being deported. To New Zealand, where her parents have joined a hobbit cult. Up-and-coming lawyer Zach is determined to climb the ladder of his old-money law firm, when he discovers the reason his promotion has always been blocked: they only promote married associates to partner. Cue up the contract marriage. Piper can stay in the country as the wife of full citizen and ...

Poetry has always provided comfort, inspiration, and connection, especially during socially precarious and politically divisive times. That has never been truer than it is today. The Wild Edge of the Heart: Women Poets Raise Their Voices presents the work of some of our leading contemporary female poets who are lauded for their ferocity, sensitivity and eloquence.

A disowned spy with one last chance, a divorced teacher needing to rediscover herself, and the search for a missing woman that brings them together. Intelligence op Birch Cardon has accepted a mission to rescue a diplomat’s kidnapped daughter. If he succeeds, he will reclaim his stolen career. Except, the woman goes missing and his intel contact turns out to be his college crush. After a messy divorce, Arden Pike takes a trip to see her college gal pal as a way to rediscover her single self. When her friend goes missing, Arden is stranded with no phone, no ID, and no access to her hotel ...

Her good heart has a really bad plan--destined to fail spectacularly.Nanny and grad student Eliza has a harebrained, movie plot-based scheme to teach her terrible boss a lesson: find a wretched hobo, give him a Hollywood makeover, and trick the selfish woman into falling for him and becoming a better person. What could go wrong? Hint: everything. Henry, the hunky lost traveler with the dashing Australian accent that weakens Eliza’s knees, is game. More than game. For Eliza, he gladly gets a glow-up, debuts at a film premier, and plays the role of the fake rich dude on a posh, exclusive ...

One wedding party, two jilted lovers, and three ill-behaved dogs. Can they add up to love? Numbers-guy and best man Price Robertson dances with the maid of honor, and sparks ignite. She gets him. He hasn’t ventured into a relationship since a heart-wrenching rejection years back. But, it’s pointless. He’ll never see her again. Dancing with Price is amazing, but Annika Dearborn needs this wedding to end so she can get back to studying. Being a returning student is rough. If she’d never quit school for Mr. Wrong years ago, she wouldn’t be in this mess. Too bad the Price is leaving. ...

He needs this job to honor his late wife. She needs to complete her late fiancé’s bucket list.Former action-movie star Chet Winters has counted the days since he lost his wife last New Year’s Eve. When he’s given a shot at starring in a reboot of her favorite TV show, he jumps at it. But there’s a catch: the producers won’t hire him unless he can prove he’s regained emotional stability. They require him to bring a steady girlfriend to his five auditions. In other words, five mandatory dates for this bereft widower. Social worker Holly Day lost her fiancé to war. With his good ...

A dreaded holiday wedding, Christmas duets, and dating the off-limits crush.Math-wiz Chelsea and her brother’s best friend Wyatt are two-thirds of the well-loved Christmas Tree-O. She’s always had a thing for Wyatt, but he’s been declared off-limits by her overprotective brother. This year, however, brother is out of town, and Wyatt is showing some clear interest. When Chelsea needs a date to her meanest cousin’s wedding—to Chelsea’s jerk-ex-boyfriend—Wyatt is the clear option. But a romance could endanger the friendship and their singing group’s dynamic—not to mention ...

Two Friends + Onstage Chemistry = Christmas TroubleClaire Downing is the last person to audition for the Sugarplum Falls’s notoriously bad town Christmas play. She's far too shy, and the holidays are the busiest time of year for her clothing boutique. Besides, the theater world belongs to her diva best friend. Claire's bestie's boyfriend, Owen Kingston, has no intention of trying out for the play, either—even if his diva girlfriend insists. The former construction company owner volunteers to build sets instead. Anything to keep her in town and not traipsing off to L.A. before he can ...

The billionaire needs a wife. His devoted secretary and matchmaker wishes he could see how perfect she is for the job.Tatum Carlyle is hopelessly devoted to her boss. As executive assistant to the brilliant CEO, she’s in Dawson Rafferty’s life every day. He depends on her for everything professional. If only he could depend on her for everything personal. A crush on the boss is cliché, but how can she help it? He’s all she wants, but he doesn't—and can’t—notice her. Curse those company bylaws regarding intra-office relationships! But now he's asked her the impossible—to find ...

Secrets. Warm spices. Holiday love. And a message in a bottle! Former reality TV starlet Jessamyn Fleet is in hiding. She’s living the Sugarplum Falls version of witness protection: running the Gingerbread Inn bed and breakfast—and keeping off her famous ex’s radar. Jessamyn has changed her look, her name, her world. Instead of living the glamorous life, she’s making warm-spices-laced breakfasts and providing her guests cozy hospitality. All she needs now is to pay off that unwise loan she borrowed from that horrible loan shark to buy the place, and she can exhale—by Christmas. ...

The girl of his nightmares might be the girl of his dreams.Dr. Luke Hotwell is the best heart surgeon in the whole hospital network. He’s on track to be named most valuable surgeon. So, when a gorgeous redhead comes storming into his office and accuses him of malpractice, he’s upset. A lawsuit could ruin his goals. He can’t quit thinking about her threats—or the woman who made them. Sheridan Chandler is a life coach deeply devoted to her clients. They’re like family to her, and even though she’s peaceful and positive, if one of them has been wronged, her warrior instincts bubble...

The guy next door. The world’s worst first date. A second chance ten Christmases later. Juliet and Taggart’s first—and last—date a decade ago was an unmitigated disaster, ending with Pepto-Bismol and the police. He probably needed a decade to recover. But Juliet couldn’t forget him. Now that he’s back in touch, Juliet is torn.If this is just a one-time thing, she risks carrying a torch for him for another decade. The one that got away might be the one guy she needs to be happy in life—and this date could show him she’s right for him, too. Unless the Christmas date curse ...

An arranged engagement goes sideways when the guy lays eyes on the wrong girl first. Noah Rush has only one job to do for his father's company: win over the competition's daughter. Although he's not crazy about the idea of an arranged engagement, he falls head over heels at their first meeting. Except ... it's the wrong girl. Keeley Castle has one job on this vacation: help her cousin Echo forget Mr. Wrong and focus on the business deal with the Rush Holdings heir. She had zero plans of getting in the way of a multi-faceted merger by finding Noah irresistible. Now Noah has to choose between...

She jilted him in college. He never expected to spar with her in court. Carson Huxley is a hotshot attorney from the city with a future partnership on the line and plans to marry the boss's daughter. Becca Goldfinch is a big-hearted small-town defense lawyer who ends up doing too much work pro bono. When Becca gets tricked into taking a real estate case, she has no idea she's going to battle against the town gazillionaire, who has hired a big-city barracuda lawyer who can tear her, and her client, to shreds. What she doesn't know is, that very barracuda attorney is Carson, her ex. And that ...

Sweetheart Morgan marries a stranger - her handsome next-door neighbor Josh - solely for college financial aid. But now she can’t stop running into him or thinking about him. Which is bad - because Josh has a serious girlfriend he plans to marry. Things leap from awkward to agonizing when a well-meaning philanthropist compels Morgan and Josh to move into his mansion as “newlyweds of the year.” Their arrangement is purely hands-off, but now they’re sharing a house, and chemistry between them is skyrocketing.